How can I tell if a player (PC) and is swimming or not?

This what I like to do

IF player is in water (aka swimming)
THEN set SeedMULT=160 //I can look the real name for this variable if you need it
ELSE set SpeedMULT = 130

I am trying to set speed based either on land vs when the player is in water / swimming

BTW, I am trouble at writing code, if anyone just write this code for me, they will get 9 hot fresh sweetrolls (or cheese) -- Their choose

I'm only seeing a condition function for http://www.creationkit.com/IsSwimming, I don't see a Papyrus version. If you need this in code, then the only thing I see for swimming is an animation variable, so I'd take a look at this: http://www.creationkit.com/List_of_Animation_Variables.

You could try this code:

Debug.Notification("Swimstate="+GetAnimationVariableFloat("SwimDirection"))

Put this in code where ever it is you have to check and see what it shows anything useful. If it changes state when you're swimming, then great, your IF/THEN would look something like:

If GetAnimationVariableFloat("SwimDirection")) > 0  SetAV("SpeedMult",160)Else  SetAV("SpeedMULT",130)EndIf

Note: I don't know if it's a float, might need replace GetAnimationVariableFloat with:
GetAnimationVariableInt
GetAnimationVariableBool <- probably NOT a bool, but if the other two don't work, might as well try.

I'll let you do the actual testing so you can save your sweet rolls

Edit: BTW, did you do a search here on the forums already? It would be surprising if you are the first to ask about swimming.

Yeah, i try to look for it, but don't see what I am looking for

thanks for your help

All I need to do now to attached this code to the spell effect

Since you are using a Magic Effect, you could use the IsSwimming conditional function there? Maybe have two different magic Effects based on if IsSwimming is True, the other for false.

Otherwise, I found this from a different thread:

So if the GetAnimationVariableFloat("SwimDirection")) doesn't register swimming, it looks like iState is set to 63 when swimming.

I will also need to work with NPCs also

so the code would be like

If PlayerREF.GetAnimationVariableInt("iState") == 63
SetAV("SpeedMult",

200

)
Else
SetAV("SpeedMULT",150)
EndIf

WOW! It complies with no errors!

Yeah, but does it work

Remember, you'll need to change the PlayerREF if you're going to use that for an NPC.

I can not tell for sure if it works, so I need to add a showmessage windows for debugging, unless u know a console command that let me see what value the SpeedMULT is

can I do a "or" on the if statement?

If PlayerREF.GetAnimationVariableInt("iState") == 63 or If NPCREF.GetAnimationVariableInt("iState") == 63
The syntax most likely be wrong, but is the logic good?

You can. The syntax is:
If PlayerREF.GetanimationVariableint("iState") == 63 || NPCREF.GetanimationVariableInt("iState") == 63

I can not tell for sure if it works, so I need to add a showmessage windows for debugging, unless u know a console command that let me see what value the SpeedMULT is

I was a wiki, i tried the showsvars console command and it says I don't have script attached, but it shows the spripts name. plan b -- what is the syntax of the Debug.MessageBox("variables name") to show the values of the speedmult?
http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Papyrus_Variables_and_Conditionals // under the "Looking at a script's variables at run time" heading

the code is attached to the magic effect in the ck, is this the right place? the spell is set to constant effect. does that makes a difference?

Because SpeedMult is an Actor Value, you can use the GetActorValue (or GetAV for short) console command:

Player.GetAV("SpeedMult") will give you the players SpeedMult. You can get the NPC value by clicking on the NPC, then typing: GetAV("SpeedMult")

from his code in, i think I found an answer to my question
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1397811-this-has-had-me-stumped-for-2-days-help/

he uses UpdateMessage.Show ( pMagicka, gMagicka, HMagicka ) and his foot note: "The UpdateMessage.show at the end of the code appears to show all of the correct values. "
so I change the code around for to use in my code
UpdateMessage.Show ( SpeedMult, iState) it should the values of those vars right?

cool, i owe you so many sweetrolls now, I lost count ..

I'm not sure what your current code looks like, but I thought SpeedMult was the actor value? If so, no, that code would not show them. You'd need something like:

Debug.MessageBox("SpeedMult=" + playerREF.GetAV("SpeedMult"))

if you are passing in your own messagebox reference, then you would use:

UpdateMessage.Show(playerREF.GetAV("SpeedMult"),PlayerREF.GetanimationVariableint("iState")

my is not firing for some reason... I put it on a constant magic effect on self any ideas why?

in the console command (player.getav speedmult) always returns 100
here is the code -- comment out the real code and just tried to get a message box up -- it did not show, therefore the code is not firing....

   Scriptname k9WateDetection  extends activemagiceffect {This is my very first script!} Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)    Debug.MessageBox("Hello, World!") endEvent;Scriptname k9WateDetection extends activemagiceffect;{If PlayerREF.GetAnimationVariableFloat("SwimDirection")) ||  NPCREF.GetAnimationVariableFloat("SwimDirection"));SetAV("SpeedMult",200);Debug.MessageBox("SpeedMult=" + playerREF.GetAV("SpeedMult"));Else;SetAV("SpeedMULT",150);Debug.MessageBox("SpeedMult=" + playerREF.GetAV("SpeedMult"));EndIf}

I see why not I have not code in years ... isn't debugging fun or what?

Your script extends ActiveMagicEffect: those don't have OnActivate events. Perhaps you want Event OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)?

sorry, it is still not firing. Do I need to start a new char to get it to work?

You don't need to start a new char, but I would always load a save made prior to activating your mod. So don't test on game where you saved with your mod already active.

well, new game / new char is still no go.... no pop up box

So how are you applying this magic effect?

My guess it's not set up correctly in the CK. If you are extending the correct script type, then there's not much else to go wrong in the script. I've never had an issue where events randomly don't fire. I'm actually not sure how you are implementing what you're doing so I can't give you any tips.

open up the mod, made an effect to set the var, then make a new spell. Open up the spells details, added the code where it says too -- gave some cues
http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Papyrus_Hello_World

instead of an object like the tutorial says to do, I am under the spell area, it is a spell after all, not an object

if one opens up any spell, one will see a small box to add code -- that will I did for my spell, then I add my spell to the argoninan race

have any tried to have code run in a spell with a constant effect with any magic effect?